Many types of neurosis have been found in the human being, in this case we will refer to actually compulsive acts such as washing your hands non-stop or switching on and off the lights after you have checked them over a hundred times in one evening. Many neurosis spring from certain experiences that might have affected a person very much. Some of them might be instances of extreme shock. Lottery numbers

Winning the lottery can become one of those instances. Just imagine, you go around your daily chores and go shopping, just normal stuff and then there you find in a ticket a series of numbers that could make your life different, very different! That is a shock. You tremble, and many people might actually literally go crazy with all the hype. Some will not be able to sleep for nights and be so worried about the whole experience that they might even walk in their sleep!

Yamil Bravo is 50 years old and loves to play the lottery and he plays it regularly. One of his favorite games is Mega Money.

Mega Money is a unique game offered by the Florida Lottery. The game is initially set up like most lottery games. It has jackpots that start at $500,000 and then the jackpot continues to grow if it is not won. To win the jackpot, you have to match 4-out-of-44 numbers, plus the Mega Ball number. The odds of winning the jackpot are approximately 1-in-3-million.

The difference is that Mega Money can pile up the jackpot until it reaches $2 million, that is the maximum payout of a jackpot. After that, if the jackpot is not won, instead of the size of the jackpot increasing, the lower level of prizes increases. This is technically what is called a rolldown. Usually rolldowns get to double the size of the secondary prizes. Lottery checker

For example, if you match 3-out-of-4 numbers, the normal prize amount would be $50. However, if you match 3-out-of-4 numbers during a rolldown draw, you would win more, probably about $100.

Yamil Bravo ended up winning a $1 million Mega Money jackpot in October of 2011.

This lottery win caused a huge impact on Yamil Bravo. In the days following his win, he tried to hide the ticket in a safe place. But anyone would become neurotic since there is no good place to hide $1 million. “I kept checking to make sure it was still there,” he said. “Then later, I would move it to another spot.”

It is highly understandable, you would also react the same way, after all one million dollars can make your dreams come true, and it is never one million dollars until you actually cash it, have it in your account and start enjoying it. So until that happens, many might suffer from a temporary winner´s neurosis.